Triple
T22061373
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herring v. United States |
E545159
|
entity |
| Predicate | joinedByInMajority |
P4304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Justice Clarence Thomas |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Justice Clarence Thomas | Statement: [Herring v. United States, joinedByInMajority, Justice Clarence Thomas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Justice Clarence Thomas Context triple: [Herring v. United States, joinedByInMajority, Justice Clarence Thomas]
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A.
Clarence Thomas
chosen
Clarence Thomas is an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his conservative judicial philosophy and originalist interpretation of the Constitution.
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B.
Mr Justice Thomas
Mr Justice Thomas is the judicial title used by Sir John Thomas, a senior British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
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C.
Robert Bork
Robert Bork was a conservative American jurist and legal scholar whose role in the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre" and later failed Supreme Court nomination made him a highly controversial figure in U.S. legal and political history.
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D.
John Dombrowski Roberts
John Dombrowski Roberts was an influential American chemist known for his pioneering work in physical organic chemistry and the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study reaction mechanisms.
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E.
Judge Thomas Powell
Judge Thomas Powell was an early local jurist and prominent figure in the region whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of Powell, Ohio.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69e11e3377c48190890c17407b9527d6 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1285d5e508190b3124a70fe55b32e |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:36 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:27 p.m.